We met at Krishnamurti Educational Centre. Mukesh emphasized that the purpose of a dialogue is to explore fundamental questions of life from a place of openness, stillness, compassion, and connectedness. Participants were invited to let go of fixed opinions, knowledge, and ideologies, and instead engage in a process of discovery through attentive presence and deep […]
We met at the Pavilion in Victoria. Mukesh (M) gave a talk on the relationship between desire and fear. Q: Does being aware of our desire have an action? M: Yes, silent loving presence has its own action. And it may not be according to my own idea. Awareness absorbs that energy [of desire] into […]
We met at the Swanwick Centre. Mukesh opened with guidance for the dialogue: It is a space to inquire into our daily life, a space not to judge anyone here but to listen, look openly — not a space to debate, offer any opinions, but to bring a quality of not-knowing, love. Though we may […]
We met at the Gorge Park Pavilion. Mukesh gave a talk titled “The observer is the observed”, which, together with the following talks in this series, is available on our YouTube channel, and the Q&A session followed: Q: There’s a joy in naming. Can I do that while also looking without naming? A: We cannot […]
We met at Swanwick Centre. Mukesh (M) gave an opening talk on the topic of Inner Freedom. He spoke first of the tool of deep listening for finding inner freedom, saying, “In order to listen, there has to be an inner freedom.” He went on to describe observation and attention as additional tools, explaining that […]
This was our first meeting with Mukesh Gupta – our June and July facilitator. Mukesh began the meeting with a meditation followed by a talk of about thirty minutes on the topic of Being versus Becoming. He spoke about how humans are conditioned from childhood to “become something,” to not be idle in perceived contemplation […]
This was our final dialogue with Hillary. We met at Swanwick Centre. The meeting began with an informal discussion of Hillary’s research and forthcoming book on Durga, the Hindu goddess. Participants explored how different religious traditions attempt to express humanity’s relationship with the sacred. The dialogue then shifted to a question posed by Hillary: What […]
Our dialogue at Esquimault Park Pavilion began with the central question: What does Krishnamurti mean by « Consciousness is its content?” We watched a short video in which Krishnamurti explored the idea — fears, beliefs, memories, attachments, desires, hurts, pleasures, and conditioning are themselves the structure of consciousness. One participant shared that in other passages […]
We met at Swanwick Centre for another open dialogue gathering exploring awareness, thought, conditioning, and self understanding in the spirit of Krishnamurti’s teachings. After introductions and reflections on the history of the Centre, the inquiry moved into the meaning of choiceless awareness, a phrase many felt drawn to yet uncertain about. Participants explored whether it […]
We met at Gorge Park Pavilion. The discussion began by returning to the question of fear and its relationship to thought. Participants explored whether fear is simply one human condition among many, like anger, jealousy, loneliness, or desire, or whether it occupies a more central place in psychological transformation. A distinction emerged between biological fear […]